Australia Cricket team

The winning history of Australia in the ICC World Cup-1987,1999,2003&2007

The Australian cricket team had won the ICC World Cup champion trophy four times in the history of World cup from the starting year 1975 to till date. For the first time, the Australian team won the world champion trophy in cricket in the year 1987.The Australian team also had won the ICC World cup champion trophy for the past three times continuously (1999, 2003 and 2007).

In the ICC World cup 1987, the Australian cricket team had played in eight matches with various teams and won in the seven matches. It was a most notable victory in the history of world cup cricket. In the same series of the world cup, the Australian team had lost the leek match with Indian cricket team with 56 runs which was held in New Delhi. In the final match of the world cup 1987, the Australian team with the captain ship of ALAN BORDER won the champion trophy of the world cup 1987 by beating the England team with the difference of seven runs in the Eden Garden stadium at Kolkatta.

In the ICC world cup 1999, the Australian cricket team had played ten matches with various teams and won in the seven matches, lost in two matches and score level in one match. During the world cup 1999, the Australian team with the captainship of STEEV WAUGH lost the matches with New Zealand and Pakistan initially, but won the ICC world cup 1999 by beating the Pakistan team with the difference of eight wickets in the Lards stadium in London on June 20th, 1999 through the continues victory .

In the ICC world cup 2003, the Australian cricket team had played eleven matches under the captain ship of RICKY PONTING with various teams and won all the matches without loosing any match, they retained the world cup again. In the final match of the ICC world cup 2003, Australian team defeated India by the difference of 125 runs.

The Australian cricket team took more advantage in the ICC world cup 2007 also. They played eleven matches under the captainship of Ricky ponting and won all the eleven matches that they had played. They made a hatrick world record by winning the world cup continuously for three times. During the final match which was played in Bridge Town Kensington oval stadium, Australia defeated Srilanka by 53 runs and won the ICC world cup 2007.

The Players of Australian Cricket team in the world cup 2011(Feb 19-April 02)

The Australian cricket team is in Group B in the ICC world cup 2011.

The team squad of the Australian team :
Ricky Ponting(Captain),
Michael Clarke(Vice Captain),
Doug Bollinger,
Brad Haddin(Wicket Keeper),
John Hastings,
Nathan Haurits,
Michael Hussey,
David Hussey,
Mitchell Johnson,
Brett Lee,
Tim Paine (Wicket Keeper),
Steven Smith,
Shaun Tait,
Shane Watson,
Cameron White.

The Coach: Tim Neilson.

Pakistan Cricket

the Partition of India in 1947, and the establishment of the separate nation state of Pakistan, cricket in the country developed steadily and Pakistan was given Test Match status at a meeting of the Imperial Cricket Conference at Lord's Cricket Ground on 28 July 1952.

When the cricket team of West Indies was due to undertake a tour of India in the winter of 1948 and all of a sudden, few members of the Lahore Gymkhana , thought of inviting the mighty team to Pakistan for one-off test match. this gave the birth to the idea of forming the board of control for cricket in Pakistan.(BCCP), so that an official invitation could be extended to the West Indies cricket board.

Justice A.R Cornelus who later became the chief Justice of Pakistan was the captain of Lahore gymkhana, with his other fellow cricketers like Mian Muhammad Saeed, Dr. Jahangir Khan, Sheikh Muhammad Nisar, Dr. Dilawar Hussain, QD Butt and AR. Collector invited then Chief Minister Punjab, Khan Iftikhar Hussain, the Khan of Mamdot to form the BCCP Khan Iftikhar Hussain became the first president of Board of Control for cricket in Pakistan (BCCP) also.

Pakistan's first Test match was played in Delhi in October 1952 as part of a five Test series which India won 2-1. Pakistan made their first tour of England in 1954 and drew the series 1-1 after a memorable victory at The Oval in which fast bowler Fazal Mahmood took 12 wickets. Pakistan's first home Test match was in Dacca in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh ) in January 1955 against India, after which four more Test matches were played in Bahawalpur , Lahore , Peshawar and Karachi (all five matches in the series were drawn).

The team is considered one of the best teams in international cricket, with top rankings in both Test and One-day International matches. Traditionally Pakistani cricket has been filled with players of outrageous talent but limited discipline, making them a team which could play inspirational cricket one day and then perform less than ordinarily another day. Over the years, competitions between India and Pakistan have always been emotionally charged and provide for intriguing contests, as talented teams from both sides of the border elevate their game to new levels to produce high-quality cricket.

Presidents and Chairmen chain
In 1995, the organization was renamed BCCP acquired a new name the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). New rules were adopted and Arif Ali Khan Abbasi become its first Chief Executive.
Name	Period
Khan Iftikhar Hussain Khan of Mandot(Late)	1948-1950
Chaudhary Nazir Ahmad Khan(Late)	Mar, 1950 - Sept, 1951
Abdus Sattar Pirzada(Late)	Sept, 1951 - May, 1953
Mian Aminuddin (Late)	Mar, 1953 - Jul, 1954
Muhammad Ali Bogra (Late)	Jul, 1954 - Sept, 1955
Maj. Gen Iskander Mirza (Late)	Sept, 1955 - Dec, 1958
Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan(Late)	Dec, 1958 - June, 1963
Justice A R Cornelius (Late) (Chairman Ad hoc Committee)	1960-1963
Syed Fida Hussain (Late)	June, 1963 - May, 1969
I A Khan (Late)	May, 1969 - May, 1972
Abdul Hafeez Kardar (Late)	May, 1972 - Apr, 1977
Chaudhry Muhammad Hussain (Late)	Apr, 1977 - Jun, 1978
Lt Gen (Retd) K M Azhar	June, 1978 - Feb, 1980
Air Marshal (Retd) Muhammad Nur Khan	Feb, 1980 - Feb, 1984
Lt Gen. (Retd) Gulam Safdar Butt (Chairman Ad hoc Committee)	Feb, 1984 - Feb, 1988
Lt Gen. (Retd) Zahid Ali Akbar Khan	Feb, 1988 - Sept, 1992
Justice Dr Nasim Hasan Shah	Oct, 1992 - Jan, 1994
Javed Burki (Chairman Ad hoc Committee)	13th Jan, 1994 - 20th Mar, 1995
Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah Bukhari	Mar, 1995 - Jan, 1998
Khalid Mahmood	Jan, 1998 - Jul, 1999
Mujeeb ur Rehman (Chairman Ad hoc Committee)	1999-1999
Dr. Zafar Altaf (Chairman Ad hoc Committee)	1999-1999
Lt. Gen. Tauqir Zia (Chairman Ad hoc Committee)	1999-2003
Shaharyar Muhammad Khan (Chairman Ad hoc Committee)	2003-2006
Dr. Naseem Ashraf	(2006-2008)

Secretaries
Name	Period
Bashir Ahmad	1965-1971
Dr. Zafar Altaf	1972-1975
Khalid Mahmood	1975-1976
Lt Col (Retd) Zafar Ahmad	1977-1978
Lt. Col (Retd) Rafi Nasim	1978-1980
Arif Ali Khan Abbasi	1980-1984
Shakoor Ahmad	1984-1985
Lt. Col (Retd) Nasim	1985-1986
Zulfaqar Ahmad	1986-1986
Ijaz Butt	1986-1988
Arif Ali Khan Abbasi	1988-1991
Shahid Rafi	19911994
Ghulam Mustafa Khan	1995-1997
Waqar Ahmad	1997-1999
Shafqat Rana	1999

Chief Executives
Name	Period
Arif Ali Khan Abbasi	1995-1996
Majid Khan	1996-1999
Yawar Saeed (Director)	1999-2000
Brig Munawar Ahmad Rana (Director)	2000-2002
Chishti Mujahid (Director)	2002-2003
Ramiz Hasan Raja	2003-2004

Batting Summary

Hanif Mohammad scored 337 against the West Indies in 1958, the first triple hundred by an Asian cricketer. This is also the longest innings by any batsman in terms of time spent at the wicket. Saeed Anwar holds the record for scoring 194, the highest ODI innings, scored against the Indian cricket team in Chennai in 1997. Shahid Afridi holds the record for the fastest ODI century reaching the milestone off just 37 balls and also equalled the second fastest hundred by scoring a century off 45 balls.

Bowling Summary

Wasim Akram has taken 502 ODI wickets, the highest by any bowler in ODI cricket. Shoaib Akhtar is the fastest bowler in the world, regularly bowling at around 92-95 miles/h, and also has the record of the fastest delivery ever recorded, clocking at 100.2 miles/h. Abdul Qadir is considered the reviver of the art of leg-spin bowling, and Saqlain Mushtaq is regarded as one of the best off-spin bowlers in cricket history, credited with inventing the delivery now known as the doosra . Danish Kaneria is only the second Hindu to play Test cricket for Pakistan.

Captains

Hafeez Kardar Fazal Mehmood Imtaiz Ahmad Javed Burki Haneef Mohammad Saeed Ahmed Intikhab Alam Majid Khan Mushtaq Mohammad Wasim Bari Asif Iqbal Imran Khan Javed Miandad Zaheer Abbas Rameez Raja Saleem Malik Aamer Sohail Saeed Anwar Wasim Akram Waqar Younis Rashid Latif Moin Khan Inzamam ul Haq Muhammad Yousaf Younas Khan Shoaib Malik

Kardar led the first Pakistani team to victory over all the Test playing nations of the 1950s Imran Khan led Pakistan to a World Cup victory in 1992 in Australia.

Indian Cricket Team

Cricket and Indian Cricket Team players have an iconic status in India. If cricket is a passion then its players drive the passion to new grounds. The Indian cricket team selected by Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) in India represents the country in all the international circuits.

As per the records Indian Cricket Team made its first official tour in the year 1911 and played English County Cricket. In the year 1926, Indian Cricket team joined Imperial Cricket Council (ICC) today known as International Cricket Council.

Indian Cricket team in its first 50 years had players such as Ranjisinhji, KS Duleepsinhji CK Nayudu, Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrashekhar, Bishan Singh Bedi, Erapalli Prasanna, and Srinivas Venkatraghavan on its roll however it could not make substantial headways against international teams. It was in the 1970s when players such as Sunil Gavaskar, Gundappa Vishwanathan, Kapil Dev, Mohammad Azharuddin, and Dileep Vengaskar joined the team things changed substantially. This new young lot infused the much-needed vigor in the team. The world was stunned when India lifted the Cricket World Cup in 1983 in England.

Now there was no looking back for the team as it tasted its first roaring success. In the 90s the inclusion of players such as Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly, Javagal Srinath, Anil Kumble, and Rahul Dravid made the Indian Cricket Team one of the most formidable ones. With this team India reached the finals of Cricket World Cup in 2003.

However in 2007 World Cup, the performance of the team was not up to the mark. Despite this setback the Indian cricket team is geared for new challenges with confidence and determination.

Cricket History

The origins of cricket are very vague, and many theories have been put forward suggesting its origins. Extensive studies and research have been conducted to trace its history and they have come out with different versions. However it is commonly accepted that the game originated from a very old leisure activity indulged by shepherds. The shepherds used crook and other farm equipments to hit a ball like deceive which used to be made up of wool or stone.

The first evidence of cricket being played was recorded in the year 1550, by the pupils of Royal Grammar School, Guildford. In the year 1611 it is reported that two young men from Sussex were punished for playing cricket instead of going to the church. The first match is recorded to have been played at Coxheath in Kent in the year 1646.

Earlier cricket used to thrive greatly as a gambling game. People used to place huge amounts of bets in matches and thus the game started to get recognition. Cricket was in fact a major gambling sport towards the end of the 17th century. It is recorded that in the year 1679, a 11-a-side match was played with stakes as high as 50 guineas per side.

During the 18th century cricket survived and thrived due to the huge amounts of money via monetary backing and gambling. The first instance of a match to be played between counties in England is recorded to be on 29th June in the year 1709. This match was played between Surrey and Kent at Dartford Brent.

The 18th century also witnessed the emergence of two types of cricket players. They were known as the retained player and the individual player. Generally the retained player was the servant of the lord and a cricketer as well. On the other hand the individual player was free to play anywhere with his skills. Basically it was something like the player could play anywhere with the amount of skill he possesses.

In the year 1787, the Marylebone Cricket Club also known MCC was created. The MCC has since then gone on to become one of the most prominent bodies in world cricket. Cricket in its initial days were restricted to the aristocratic class of England. Cricket gradually went on to become the national game of England.

The late 18th century was a very crucial phase for the development of the game, both within and outside Britain. The game was spread far and wide mainly due to England’s imperialism. Wherever they went, the game went with them and thus spread outside England. The first official match was held between Canada and United States was held in the year 1844.

In the present times, cricket has its own following of loyal fans. The International Cricket Council, better known as the ICC is the governing body in world cricket. The ICC was founded on the 15th of June in the year 1909. All laws relating to ODIs and Test Cricket are framed and implemented by the ICC.